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Types of Capacitors
Figure 14 Capacitors Connected in Parallel
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DC Circuits
CAPACITANCE
TABLE 1
Types of Capacitors
Dielectric
Construction
Capacitance
Range
Air
Meshed plates
10 - 400 pF
Mica
Stacked Sheets
10 - 5000 pF
Paper
Rolled foil
0.001 - 1 µF
Ceramic
Tubular
0.5 - 1600 pF
Disk
Tubular
0.002 - 0.1 µF
Electrolytic
Aluminum
5 - 1000 µF
Tantalum
Aluminum
0.01 - 300 µF
Capacitors
in
Series
and
Parallel
Capacitors in series are combined like resistors in parallel. The total
capacitance
, C
T
, of
capacitors connected in series (Figure 13), is shown in Equation (3-9).
Figure 13 Capacitors Connected in Series
(3-9)
1
C
T
1
C
1
1
C
2
1
C
3
. . .
1
C
N
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